Salve



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULYE MYERS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SAVLV E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,031, dated February 3, 1880.

Application filed November 1, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J ULYE MYERS, of Boston, in the county'of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Salve Compound, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention has for its object to provide a salve for the curing of sores, boils, felons, abscesses, burns, scalds, and other cutaneous diseases and injuries; and it consists of a combination of the following ingredients, viz: iodine, turpentine, camphor, glycerine, oliveoil soap, bees-wax, shoe-makers wax, and lard.

The relative proportions of these ingredients may be varied somewhat; but I have found that satisfactory results are obtained by the use of the following proportions, by Weight, viz: iodine, one-eighth of an ounce; turpentine, oneeighth of an ounce; camphor, oneeighth of .an ounce; glycerine, three-eighths of an ounce; olive-oil soap, one-fourth of an ounce bees-wax, one-fourth of an ounce; shoemakers waX,'one-half ounce; lard, fiveeeighths of an ounce.

The salve is made by first melting the solid ingredients, and then mixingwithjthem the pounds are different from my salve, not only in com position but also in effect.

I claim- The described salve compound, consisting of iodine, turpentine, camphor, glycerine, oliveoil soap or its equivalent, bees-wax, shoe-makers wax, and lard, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 30th day of October, 1879.

JULYE MYERS.

Witnesses: V

O. F. BROWN,

GEo. W. PIERCE. 

